Bible verse
but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”
Malachi 1:3 · BSB
The verses around it, from Malachi 1.
1 This is the burden of the word of the LORD to Israel through Malachi:
2 “I have loved you,” says the LORD. But you ask, “How have You loved us?” “Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the LORD. “Yet Jacob I have loved,
3 but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”
4 Though Edom may say, “We have been devastated, but we will rebuild the ruins,” this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called the Land of Wickedness, and a people with whom the LORD is indignant forever.
5 You will see this with your own eyes, and you yourselves will say, ‘The LORD is great—even beyond the borders of Israel.’”
6 “A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me?” says the LORD of Hosts to you priests who despise My name. “But you ask, ‘How have we despised Your name?’
7 By presenting defiled food on My altar. But you ask, ‘How have we defiled You?’ By saying that the table of the LORD is contemptible.
KJV
And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
ASV
but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.
ERV
but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.
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